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Grok, a chatbot created by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, shared several outlandish antisemitic comments on X on Tuesday, prompting an outcry from some social media users.
In its dedicated account on X, which Mr. Musk own…
The year is 2025, and an AI model belonging to the richest man in the world has turned into a neo-Nazi. Earlier today, Grok, the large language model that's woven into Elon Musk's social network, X, started posting anti-Semitic replies to p…
The AI chatbot Grok, which is produced by Elon Musk's xAI, wrote numerous antisemitic social media posts Tuesday after the artificial intelligence company released a revamped version of it over the weekend.
The posts ranged from alleging "p…
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler and shared antisemitic rhetoric on Tuesday, the day before his xAI company plans to release its latest model.
In response to one user asking “which 20th century his…
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot praised Hitler, used antisemitic phrases and attacked users with traditionally Jewish surnames before it was reined in.
Users reported July 8 that they would get the disturbing phrases after typing in questions t…
Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, made a series of deeply antisemitic remarks in response to several posts on X on Tuesday.
A large language model that is integrated into X, Grok acts as a platf…
"We have improved @Grok significantly," Elon Musk wrote on X last Friday about his platform's integrated artificial intelligence chatbot. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions."
Indeed, the update did not go unnoticed.…

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has deleted “inappropriate” posts on X after the company’s chatbot, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler, referring to itself as MechaHitler and making antisemitic comments in response to user queri…
Elon Musk has created a monster.
Grok, the AI chatbot he commissioned for his social media platform, X, has been behaving strangely and terribly after its code was updated last week, spewing bigoted talking points when users ask for answers…
July 8 (Reuters) - Social media posts on the X account of the Grok chatbot developed by Elon Musk's company xAI were removed on Tuesday after complaints from X users and the Anti-Defamation League that Grok produced content with antisemitic…
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence firm has deleted "inappropriate" antisemitic and pro-Hitler Grok posts, as Türkiye and Poland cracked down on the chatbot for offensive comments about politicians and religious beliefs.
Concerns over poli…
Grok is pretending yesterday didn't happen.
The artificial intelligence chatbot built by Elon Musk's xAI and integrated with his social media site X has deleted its comments praising Adolf Hitler and attacking Jewish people but denied that …
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company said Wednesday that it's taking down "inappropriate posts" made by its Grok chatbot, which appeared to include antisemitic comments that praised Adolf Hitler.
Grok was developed by Musk's xAI and …
Grok, an AI chatbot built by Elon Musk's company xAI, went on a viral antisemitic tirade on Tuesday where it praised Adolf Hitler, accused Israel of being behind 9/11, referred to itself as "mechaHitler" and said that people with "certain s…
e are deep into the AI boom -- an age in which large language models have moved from novelty to necessity at a pace that has outstripped our capacity to reflect or adapt. There is breathless enthusiasm, endless hype and a sense that caution…
Tech billionaire Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is at the center of scandal after posting antisemitic remarks.
Developer xAI announced on Wednesday that it was in the process of removing "inappropriate posts" by Grok on the online platform X.
…Honestly, why does anyone use X anymore?
You can make the usual arguments people make about all social-media platforms.
It's a place to connect. But are the people on X the ones you really want to connect with?
It's a place to promote my wo…

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok praised Adolf Hitler, referred to itself as “MechaHitler,” and posted vile antisemitic hate, such as calling for people with “certain surnames” to be round up, stripped of their rights and eliminated.
The X chatb…
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Elon Musk on Wednesday claimed Grok, the AI chatbot by his xAI, was "too eager to please and be manipulated" after a series of posts by the chatbot appeared to praise Adolf Hitler and referred to itself as "MechaHitler."
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Grok, the chatbot developed by the Elon Musk-founded company xAI, removed what it called "inappropriate" social media posts on Tuesday after complaints from X users and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that Grok produced content with anti-S…
Grok, the AI chatbot of Elon Musk-owned social media platform X, sparked outrage after seemingly sympathizing with the Nazi Holocaust in Europe carried out by Adolf Hitler. The AI chatbot declared itself a 'Mecha-Hitler' - the name for a ro…
When Elon Musk launched a brand new AI chatbot called Grok in November 2023, he pitched it as an edgy alternative to "politically correct" artificial intelligence like OpenAI's ChatGPT.
On Friday, the tech billionaire unveiled a new update …
Elon Musk said changes his xAI company made to Grok to be less politically correct had resulted in the chatbot being "too eager to please" and susceptible to being "manipulated." That apparently led it to begin spewing out antisemitic and p…
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company took action against its Grok chatbot on Wednesday, removing a post it had made praising Adolf Hitler in response to a question related to the deadly Texas Hill Country flood.
In response to an X u…
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Elon Musk has unveiled the latest version of his AI chatbot Grok, integrated into his platform X, in the hope that it will rival OpenAI's ChatGPT. The move came just 2…
Elon Musk has sought to explain how his artificial intelligence (AI) firm's chatbot, Grok, praised Hitler.
"Grok was too compliant to user prompts," Musk wrote on X. "Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially. That is being addres…
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has come under fire after its chatbot Grok stirred controversy with anti-Semitic responses to questions posed by users -- just weeks after Musk said he would rebuild it because he felt it was …
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Elon Musk's artificial intelligence start-up xAI says it is in the process of removing "inappropriate" posts by Grok on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, after users pointed out that the chatbot repeated an antisemitic mem…
Last Tuesday, when an account on X using the name Cindy Steinberg started cheering the Texas floods because the victims were "white kids" and "future fascists," Grok --- the social media platform's in-house chatbot --- tried to figure out w…
Last Tuesday, when an X account using the name Cindy Steinberg began cheering on the Texas floods because the victims were "white children" and "future fascists," Grok—the social media platform's internal chatbot—tried to figure out who was…
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